The weather controls you

Vancouver is a small city located in British Columbia, Western Canada. Many around the world associate Canada with bleak conditions and severely cold temperatures. In general, this is not the case with Vancouver which is known to be kinder to its residents only to show her wrath through pouring rain.

It is now March, one would naturally expect to see more consistent sunshine. This is why I was baffled last week to see thick snowflakes fall just outside my window continuously draping my street in a thick frosted blanket. That previous night, I felt unwell due to the "stress" I incurred (according to the doctor) from the preparation of an exam I had to take. Subsequently I wrote an email to my lecturer informing him of my situation and to ask if I could write a make-up exam. He replied that he could transfer the weight of the exam to the final.

To my horror (ok, I know its exaggeration), the exam itself was cancelled, or should I say, postponed due to the icy precarious conditions one would have to brave just to go to a university propped on a mountain.

This is why I can't spend this delightful day outside attending to habits in which I fancy, even though this is one of the first beautiful days after the snow. I have to hunch myself over a desk with poor lighting and bury my head which encases a small brain, in books and poorly scribbled notes. The exam is tomorrow.


*This is a complaint